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Rolling out: Projects become folders 📂 ✨

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August 3, 2026
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Hi Figma Forum — we rolled out some changes that will make organizing team files more flexible and intuitive.

A Figma workspace organized with nested folders.

As more work happens in Figma, files can get harder to find. In the coming weeks, we’ll introduce folders, so you can structure files to mirror the ways your teams work.

Here’s what’s changed:

Projects become folders. All files in Teams will live in folders. Any previous reference to Projects in the UI will be renamed to Folders.
Subfolders and colors. Nest folders and assign folders colors to create hierarchy.
Simpler sharing. Subfolders inherit access from the folder above it by default, or you can limit access to specific people.

What’s not changing:

Workspaces and teams — these structures will stay exactly the same as before.
Who can access folders — the same people who had access to the project before have access to the folder now. This includes Connected projects, now called Connected folders.
Creating, moving, and sharing folders — the same ways and places apply as they did with projects.
API keys — these will continue to work as before.

✅ Thank you for your questions and feedback!

@Jillian_Latimer and @Ethan Adams from the product team were here on Monday, August 17, 2026, between noon and 1pm PDT / 3pm and 4pm EDT to answer your questions about the rollout. This thread is now closed to new questions for the product team — thanks to everyone who weighed in!

Learn more about what’s changing specific to your plan type here: Updates to Figma’s file management.

This topic has been closed for replies.

Pinned Reply By Tom Reem

Hi again, everyone!

Thanks for all the questions and feedback as we rolled out these changes to file management, and shoutout to @Ethan Adams, @Jillian_Latimer, and the team for jumping in. This thread is now closed to new questions. ✅ Here's what came up during this discussion and where things stand.

👀 Making folders easier to scan. A lot of you navigate visually and many of you design covers specifically so the right project jumps out. You'd like that same quick recognition in the new folder view. The suggestions here included: custom folder covers, automatic previews pulled from a file inside, a larger card view for top-level folders. It's the single most common piece of feedback since folders shipped, and the team is working on an improvement. No timeline to share yet.

🎨 Folder colors and contrast. Colors are a good start for visually differentiating files, but a number of you ask for more visually distinct colors, plus non-color cues like emoji or icons that work regardless of how you see color. This is folded into the same work above.

🗂️ Sort order resetting. This matters most if you organize numerically (e.g. 01. Exploration, 02. In Design). Context worth having: The team has tried persistent sort before and heard just as strongly from people who found it disruptive, so today's behavior is a deliberate call rather than a bug. We're watching to see whether sentiment has shifted.

🫱🏻‍🫲🏼 All other asks, logged. Features like right-clicking on empty space to create a folder or file, expanding starred folders in the sidebar, pinning folders so an archive stays put, denser layout options, and reusing page structures — we hear you.

Want more context?

Get organized with nested folders — the release note
Code, craft, and the making of nested folders — how the team built it
Updates to Figma's file management — what's changing for your plan

Keep it coming. This thread is closed, but the conversation isn't. More feedback or suggestions → Share Your Feedback. Something to fix → Report a Problem or Support. We'll keep looping in the right teams.

Kerry_Johnson

Active Member

Thank you!

Pencilixel

New Member

It is amazing! 😍

James Vince

New Participant

Amazing sir😍

Ara_Garabedian

New Participant

@Tom Reem

How about folders for page organisation in Figma design so I don’t have to do silly stuff like this👇

Margot_Gabel

Active Member

Is the infamous ‘Sort by’ dropdown bug fixed with this rollout?

Using Figma since 2018.

Tim_hfg1

New Member

Hi Figma team,

First of all, I really appreciate the introduction of nested folders. This has been a feature many of us have been waiting for, and it makes organizing larger workspaces much easier.

One thing that currently feels inconsistent is the visual representation of Parent Folders (the folders that replaced the previous Projects level).

Compared to the previous Project view, Parent Folders are now very small and do not provide any visual preview. This makes it harder to quickly distinguish between different areas of a workspace, especially in larger teams with many brands, products, or clients.

A solution could be to introduce Folder Covers / Previews, similar to how tools like Notion handle databases and pages. For example:

Allow users to choose a cover image for a Parent Folder
Use an automatic preview from a selected file inside the folder
Provide a larger card-style view option for Parent Folders

Once you are inside a Parent Folder, I think the current structure works very well. At that point, users already know where they are and mainly need a way to group and organize individual files. The bigger challenge is the first-level overview and quickly identifying the right area of a workspace.

A more visual approach for Parent Folders would make large workspaces feel much easier to navigate and would improve the experience for teams managing many projects or brands.

Thanks for considering this!

Angel Martin

New Member

I know that in the grand scheme of things, this isn’t a big deal, but for a company that organises its’ folders in Figma using a numbered system, it’s driving me utterly mad.

Projects and teams in Figma have filters available on them for ordering by either last modified or alphabetical, with the default being last modified. Our folder structure is labelled numerically - ‘01. Exploration’, ‘02. In Design’, ‘03. In Development’ - so last modified isn’t really any good for us.

I change the sort to be alphabetical, but every time I leave a folder and come back, it resets itself to last modified and I have to do it all over again. I’m back and forth in folders a lot, and having to do this over and over...

Please please PLEASE is it possible for Figma to remember the setting you put on something?

[Moderator note: This post was merged from Figma folder filters into Rolling out: Projects become folders on 10-Aug-2026.]

Irine

New Member

Please bring back the preview cards with files inside each folder. I recognized folders more quickly via these preview thumbnails

But overall that’s a nice idea

Apolline

Active Member

The differences between the different folders colors are barely noticeable

Can you tell which one of these is purple at first glance ?

MattFannin

New Participant

Please bring back the preview cards with files inside each folder. I recognized folders more quickly via these preview thumbnails

But overall that’s a nice idea

Very much agree with this. For me it’s become instantly harder to find a folder / project at a glance using only the text labels. I also can’t jump directly to one of the most recent files inside a folder or project anymore which was probably my most used feature of the old projects view — now this requires an extra click (and a long wait on the folder to load it’s contents).

The folder colours feature does make me feel a little colour blind, not sure this is a particularly helpful feature as it is? Setting an emoji / icon or something might be a more accessible differentiating feature perhaps?

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